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I love that Clark is in Alexa's body during the stay at the clinic. It certainly puts an interesting spin on the Lois/memory arc from the show.

I'm creeped out right along with Clark as Deter tries to seduce her on their picnic. Deter may be subtle enough with a brain-damaged patient, but he's so obvious to us and to Clark (and Lois). Any chance that Lois and Clark will set him up on a sting so he'll lose his license to practice medicine?

And Mendenhall... Uh oh. It's good that Clark's superhearing allowed him to hear the hypnotizing words and the phone call, but not good that he actually lost a sense of time. So the programming actually worked? Will a super Lois be needing to stop Clark from carrying out his 'orders'?

I can't wait to see the next conversation between Clark and Lois.

/starts putting up camp site/

Michael

I just got finished reading 'the sociopath next door' by Dr. Martha Stout and it's making me wonder if the original writers meant for Deter to be a bit of a sociopath - no conscience, but a frighteningly charming user/abuser.

Just a thought

Come to think of it, aren't most of the villians on LnC either sociopaths, psychopaths or plain criminally insane?

Michael

Some of them are just stupid. :rolleyes:

But yes, L&C, and DC in general, specializes in sociopathic villains - and heroes of questionable mental balance as well.

But Deter's a weird one - in part one of that arc, he's 'fallen' for Lois for no apparent reason and follows a very predictable pattern of isolating his victim from their normal support structure and forcing an excessive dependance on him - a pretty normal pattern for a psychological abuser.

But in part 2, he's following Lois & Clark around on an investigation, and while not exactly helpful, he's almost acting like he might actually care for her.

It's almost like the writers realized exactly how creepy Deter could get and they didn't really want to go all the way there.

And we never did find out why Deter would put his entire professional reputation at stake to 'fall' for the woman Lex Luthor kidnapped.

Huh... I just went and checked. The two parts have different writers, so I'll vote for 'personality transplant'

Michael, who has seen far more gruesome personality transplants due to different writers in fiction than that of Deter.

Well, I shall endeavor to avoid personality transplantation issues with Deter. Rest assured that Deter has an ulterior motive and it's not because Alexa's a leggy blonde.

Ulterior motive - I'm guessing money, somehow.